Novah
Novah was given to 249 girls in 2025, #1,006 among girls’ names; 3,983 Americans have been recorded with it since 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,960 Americans named Novah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 8.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Novah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Novah?
#1,006 among girls’ names, 2025
Novah rose from #1,869 in 2015 to #1,006 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.06 to 0.15 per 1,000.
578 babies in 2020, the peak
Novah peaked in 2020, when 578 babies were given it (517 girls, #569 among girls’ names). The 269 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 47% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 249 | #1,006 | 20 | #4,994 |
| 2024 | 303 | #889 | 45 | #2,862 |
| 2023 | 402 | #706 | 38 | #3,207 |
| 2022 | 424 | #696 | 49 | #2,704 |
| 2021 | 382 | #745 | 50 | #2,612 |
| 2020 | 517 | #569 | 61 | #2,255 |
| 2019 | 290 | #914 | 41 | #2,975 |
| 2018 | 272 | #974 | 57 | #2,348 |
| 2017 | 181 | #1,301 | 40 | #2,988 |
| 2016 | 149 | #1,521 | 32 | #3,497 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 110 | #1,869 | 25 | #4,146 |
| 2014 | 61 | #2,831 | 22 | #4,488 |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,686 | 16 | #5,568 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,283 | 12 | #6,913 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,283 | 6 | #11,860 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,599 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,808 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,926 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,736 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,714 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Novah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,983 Americans recorded as Novah, 87% are girls and 13% boys. In 2025 it went to 249 girls and 20 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Novah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Novah, and how old are they?
3,960 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,983 Americans ever recorded as Novah. The median Novah alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 8.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 104 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,860 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made.
Where are babies named Novah born?
The states with the most babies named Novah are Georgia, North Carolina and Texas, with 32% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 26 | #448 | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 20 | #557 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 18 | #1,394 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 18 | #907 | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 13 | #538 | 1.1× |
| California | 12 | #1,816 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 10 | #907 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,108 | 1.0× |
| Maryland | 8 | #639 | 1.0× |
| New York | 7 | #1,787 | 0.6× |
Where Novah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Novah is most over-represented in Georgia: since 2006 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Novah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Novah?
Novah is a less common spelling of Nova: SSA has recorded 3,983 Novah and 59,010 Nova since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 64,270 babies since 1880, Novah is the second most given (6.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 269 of their 5,197 babies (5.2%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Novah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Novah and names like it
- Compare Novah and NovaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNovah peaked in 2020.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Novah since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Novah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Novah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.